Who’s Afraid of Jesse Jackson?

One of the fascinating things about Jesse Jackson is that there’s a complete mismatch between the level of holy terror he generates in politicians & corporations and the actual amount of real world influence he has.

The myth of Jesse Jackson says he’s a black American leader and if he’s not happy, tens of millions of black Americans aren’t happy either. The reality is that even a large majority of black Americans seem to view him as a camera hogging hustler whose first priority is his own wallet.

If you want to see a perfect example of that, let’s take a look at his laughable comments about Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert. Gilbert was hurt and betrayed by the circus act James put on while he was leaving Cleveland. He publicly hammered James. Here are Jesse Jackson’s moronic comments about the incident,

(Gilbert’s) feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality. He sees LeBron as a runaway slave. This is an owner employee relationship — between business partners — and LeBron honored his contract.

Yes, poor Lebron. Getting obscenely wealthy playing basketball for a living is obviously just like being forced to pick cotton, getting whipped, and living in a shotgun shack you’re not allowed to run from under the penalty of death.

So, Jesse Jackson said something stupid. Nothing unusual there. But his comments were so dumb that they started trending on Twitter. The people who are frightened of Jackson? It would do them a world of good to read through the thousands of comments talking about what an idiot Jackson is, most of which came from other black Americans. Here are a few typical responses,

MattBinder: LeBron James would’ve been invited to play the Homerun Derby, but Jesse Jackson would probably say something about him working in a field.